CaseFireball1979
Gainesville, FL, USA
Glowing light moves slowly, hovers then shoots straight up into the sky and vanishes
Report quality: Moderate51/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (84 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1979-05-01
- Where
- Gainesville, FL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 29.652, -82.325 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-gainesville-fl-1979-5a7571
In context
- This is one of 71 reports logged in Gainesville, FL.
- This case is one of 11 Florida reports filed in 1979.
- Fireball craft made up 2.6% of 1970s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.